Events And Conferences

Strong and Prosperous Communities: Building Effective Partnerships

25th June 2009 at 10:45 AM until 25th June 2009 at 1:00 PM

Location:

Malone House, Belfast

One of a series of half-day workshops for those charged with building and delivering local public services. This one is about ‘Building Effective Partnerships’, and how they can be made to work effectively.

You may say that this is already happening and, yes, a lot is already happening: organisations do work together and we can all point to successful partnership arrangements. But, if we are to go further, we perhaps need to think more about policy outcomes and the relationships between them, multi-agency approaches, managing co-operatively and across boundaries; and about how delivery systems can be better integrated and focused on the frontline. Whatever the model, partnerships are often seen as the solution. While each has its own dynamic much depends on the inter-actions and inter-relations in play. While public agencies are natural collaborators—they start with shared values and sense of purpose—how do you build effective partnerships? Accommodate different cultural drivers? Develop synergies? Reconcile priorities? Bring budgets and money etc. to bear?

This workshop is for locally based senior managers in government departments and agencies, in local and other public authorities including the police, fire and health services. It will be about designing partnerships that work, about sharing experiences and working collaboratively across organisational boundaries. As such it will cover different types of partnership working, members’ roles and accountabilities, design aspects and protocols. It will also reflect on how successful partnerships tend to work in practice, on good practice, on common problems and strategies for dealing with the sorts of issues likely to surface within a partnership.

Organised in co-operation with SOLACE and the Local Government Staff Commission the workshop will be led by Angela Prober, Director of Organisational Development at SOLACE Enterprises, who has an impressive track record in guiding and supporting local organisations in how they think about and then plan and deliver change. Angela has developed a deep understanding of current issues and thinking in regard to local service delivery and ways in which it can be radically improved.

PLACES ARE FREE OF CHARGE BUT ARE LIMITED

For More Information contact

Kim McKnight (T) 02890 542966 (DIAL 42966) (E) mail@ceforum.org

Diana Stewart (T) 02890 313200 (E) Diana.stewart@lgsc.org.uk

Christine Horner (T) 02890 796966 (E) christine.horner@solace.org.uk

All bookings should be made via the Chief Executives' Forum website

Events And Conferences

Strong and Prosperous Communities: Building Effective Partnerships

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